What Does the Shastra Have to Say? The Age of Consent Bill Controversy and the Reimagination of Hinduism in Modern Western India

This article examines the Scottish missionary contribution to a Scottish sense of empire in India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Initially, the article reviews general historiographical interpretations which have in recent years been developed to explain the Scottish relationship with British imperial development in India. Subsequently the article analyses in detail the religious contributions of Scottish Presbyterian missionaries of the Church of Scotland and the Free Church Missions to a Scottish sense of empire with a focus on their interaction with Hindu socioreligious thought in nineteenth-century western India. Previous missionary historiography has tended to focus substantially on the emergence of Scottish evangelical missionary activity in India in the early nineteenth century and most notably on Alexander Duff (1806–78). Relatively little has been written on Scottish Presbyterian missions in India in the later nineteenth century, and even less on the significance of their missionary thought to a Scottish sense of Indian empire. Through an analysis of Scottish Presbyterian missionary critiques in both vernacular Marathi and English, this article outlines the orientalist engagement of Scottish Presbyterian missionary thought with late nineteenth-century popular Hinduism. In conclusion this article demonstrates how this intellectual engagement contributed to and helped define a Scottish missionary sense of empire in India.

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Rural Credit in Western India 1875–1930

10.1525/9780520327825 ◽

1970 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

I. J. Catanach

Keyword(s):

Western India ◽

Rural Credit

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Bacteriological Profile of Surgical Site Infection From A Tertiary Care Hospital, From Western India

Indian Journal Of Applied Research ◽

10.15373/2249555x/jan2014/120 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 397-400

Author(s):

Dr.Arti Jain ◽

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Dr. Sunita Bhatawadekar ◽

Dr. Meera Modak

Keyword(s):

Surgical Site Infection ◽

Tertiary Care Hospital ◽

Tertiary Care ◽

Western India ◽

Care Hospital ◽

Site Infection ◽

Bacteriological Profile

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Mammai Mataji

Fieldwork in Religion ◽

10.1558/fiel2008v2i2.100 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 100-126

Author(s):

Peter Maddock

Keyword(s):

Social Values ◽

Religious Studies ◽

Political Organization ◽

Western India ◽

Right Action ◽

Great Goddess ◽

The World ◽

Feminine Divine

The theological and sociological implications associated with the existence (or non-existence) of ancient Great Goddess religions have been hotly debated for more than half a century, even prior the rise of recognizable feminist approaches to Archaeology and Religious Studies. This rare, if not unique, ethnographic account of such a theology as practised today is therefore a significant intervention, hopefully putting some clothes on otherwise naked speculation. The Sorathiya Rabari pastoralists of Saurastra, western India, hold Mammai Mataji as their Godhead. Mammai Dharma (religion) provides their path to salvation and a guide to right action in the world. It is a vital ingredient of Sorathiya Rabari identity and offers a structure for intra-caste political organization. Like most other Hindus, Rabari social values are unambiguously patriarchal, so how this coexists with belief in an omnipotent feminine Divine is explored throughout the article.

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